On Wednesday 06 August 2003 15:09, dittigas wrote: > > srpm is an RPM package that contains source archives, patches and > > compilation instructions. it is used to build binary RPM packages. in the > > RPM spec file you list the patches that you want to install and the build > > process will path the source tree with them after it extracts all the > > source archives. > > I Know what an SRPM is :) > > > It is relatively painless to add more patches and test them, though I > > think that dittigas intended for something a bit different. > > It seems you've answered my Question. Just exactly how do you specifiy > which patches to Install. Say I want the preempt or lowlatency patches.
The SRPM includes some patches. these are listed in the spec file, where normally all would be enabled (unless the pacakger wanted to temporarly remove some). You'd see some lines like this: Patch0: patch-file.patch.bz2 Patch1: patch-file.patch.bz2 and then later %patch0 %patch1 You can simply comment the %patch lines for that patches you don't like. you can also add more patch files and %patch commands. > Do I need to make them available on /usr/src and then add them to the > Kernel SRPM and then re-build it? If you want to add patches, you put them in the SOURCES directory under your RPM build tree (e.g. /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES on redhat, /usr/src/RPM/SOURCES on mandrake), and then add them to the spec file as described above. You can then test if they apply correctly by running rpm -bp kernel.spec which tells RPM to do only the "prepare" stage - untar the sources and run the patches. when you build the binary RPM, don't forget to also build the new source RPM using the -bs switch, so that you'll have a source RPM with all your new patches, that you can distribute. -- Oded ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
